Resources and Articles

Videos

Climate Literacy Training:

Unless we have a good understanding of what the climate crisis is, what the science tells us and what we need to do about it, then we won’t be able to act, individually or collectively. The Sustainability Team has developed this 45-minute session to offer you insight into a key issue relating to your learning.

Green Careers Talk:

As part of the careers focused Green Week, we have invited speakers from different sectors to talk about Green Careers.

1. Working for Sustainability Leaders- Learn How Your Career Will Help Save the Planet:
   This panel discussion brought together leaders in sustainability from across the job sector. The panellists outlined their career pathways to date and answered important questions on how to reach high in the environmental sector.
2. Green Careers: Designing, Developing and Constructing a Career in the Built Environment Sector:
   This panel discussion brought together staff in the built environment to discuss how the sector in changing to accommodate a lesser environmental impact.
3. Green Careers: How gaining experience can accelerate your career with purpose pathway?
   This panel discussion brought together three volunteers and paid interns that have worked with the University's own Sustainability Team, providing their insights into gaining experience and how that can be used to accelerate your career.

Other Videos:

• Sustainability explained in 2 minutes (animation)
• What is Climate Change?
• A Youtuber focussed on explaining global issues using animation
• The Story of Stuff (online documentaries)
• Sustainability 101 (made by our own Head of Sustainability)
• United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
• What is Biodiversity (WWF)
• Leonardo DiCaprio’s UN Climate Speech 2014 
• The Guardian Environmental Video (with Greta Thunberg)
• David Attenborough’s COP26 Speech
• The Psychology of Climate Change
• Why Climate Change is a Threat to Human Rights

Podcasts & Programmes

• BBC Nature & Environment (Podcasts)
• Climate Change The Facts (with David Attenborough)
• Down to Earth Podcast (Hubbub)
• Blue Planet 2 (BBC)
• TED Talks
• The Do Lectures
• Overview (an astronaut’s perspective of Earth)

Websites

• Tools to understand and apply sustainability (The Natural Step)
• The Materials Sustainability Index (for apparel & footwear)(developed by Nike (Creative Commons))
• Carbon Footprint Calculator
• The Wild Network – Connecting Kids with Nature
• The Do-Nation (donate by Doing – sustainably!)
• The Guardian Environment. Probably the best coverage of any UK press for UK and world issues
• The Ecologist magazine
• Fast Co-Exist
• United Nations Environment Programme
• Why COP26 is vital for Business

Organisations

• Forum for the Future
• World Business Council for Sustainable Development
• Unilever (Sustainable Living Plan)
• Marks & Spencer (Plan A)
• The NHS (A Greener NHS)
• Smith School of Enterprise & the Environment
• UK Green Building Council
• Business in the Community

Sustainability Higher Education

• The Environmental Association of Universities & Colleges (EAUC). Register for free as Greenwich is a member.
• UNESCO
• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Reports

• World Business Council for Sustainable Development
• IPCC Reports on Climate Change 
• Higher Education Statistics Agency Environmental Information (all UK HEI’s)

Events

• The RSA (free in central London)
• The LSE (free in central London)